Access to the Tutanota secure email service is currently being blocked in Russia, with the block being enacted over the weekend, starting February 14.
While Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, usually published an official statement on occasions when similar services were blocked in the country, this time the block came without warning, with the team behind the service being forced to collect proof that this was happening.
No Russian authorities contacted or notified Tutanota about this block as of yet and the team behind it still doesn't know why Tutanota is blocked in Russia according to Tutanota co-founder and developer Matthias Pfau.
Still accessible via Tor or VPN
"As the OONI Explorer - a tool to demonstrate censorship online -
shows, Tutanota is blocked in parts of Russia," Pfau
shared in a blog post published today.
"Tutanota is also listed in the
registry of blocked sites provided by Russian activists," he added. This registry is part of a
Russian initiative that wants to force all foreign internet service providers to give Russian authorities access to Russian citizens' data and encryption keys.
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